Description: A policy framework and roadmap for regenerating small and midsize legacy cities in an equitable, climate-resilient manner.
Brief description: is the author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012). She is a Penn Institute for Urban Research scholar and a Gateway Cities Innovation Institute fellow with the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth. She holds a PhD and an MA in US history from the University of Rochester and a BA in social thought and political economy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Review Quotes: This is crucial work. These small cities are often the hubs of large regions, and they can't be allowed to just molder away. Instead, they have a bright--and bright green--future, if we can come tougher to help them make the transition!--Bill McKibben, Author of End of Nature